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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-07-13

p- "How many times to-day have you
INQUIRED for a letter for Lucinda john
son?" queried the lady at the delivery
window of a colored girl about ten years
old.
"Ten times, missus." -.
"And didn't I say there was no letter ?"
"Yes'm."
"Well, why do you come so often? We
don't have q mail from Chicago every
half hour"
81 know it, but ma reckoned dis ye"e
letter come in two days ago, an dat some
odder 'Cinda johnson had done got it an
read it an brought it back. You see, dar's
tw~enty-four 'Cinda Johnsons in Detroit,
an when dar's a letter fur any Of 'em it has
to sorter 60 around. I'll be in again dis
evenin'."
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RAG WEED HAY.-Mr. J. w. Watts, of
Laurens, communicates the following to
the Ne10s and Courier:
When cut at the proper time, which is
while in bloom, and well cured, l prize
rag weed almost as much as good clover
hay. All kinds of stock eat it with avidi-
ity, and it seems especially to suit the
horse. We never feed it to milk COWS, as
it imparts a bitter taste to the milk. 1t is
cured like peavines, though it requires less
time. Those that are about three feet high
make better hay than those of larger
growth. Cut them in the forenoon, cock
them in the afternoon, and let them re-
main in the cock two or three days, when
they are ready for the barn, and as soon as
thoroughly cured should be packed close
ly. In fact, this should be done with all
hay, as it gets too dry when left loose and
loses much of it's value. Whatshatters off
in the barn may be fed to sheep and goats.
They will regard it an especial treat.
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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
York County.

WHEREAS R. D. MCKNIGHT has applied
all and singular the goods and chattels, rights
and credits off. ROSS MCKNIGHT, late of the
county aforesaid, deceased.
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all
and singular the kindred and creditors of the
said deceased, to be and appear before me, at
our next Probate Court for said county, to be
holden at York Court House on the 21ST DAY
OF JULY, A. d., 1887, at II o'clock, A. NJ, to
shew cause, if any, why the said Administra-
ton hould not be granted.
Given under my hand and seal, this 9th day of
July, in the year of our Lord one thou
sand eight hundred and eighty-seven, and in
the 10th year of American Independence.
JAMES R.. KENNEDY,
Probate Judge.
July6 q 2t
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H9A On the day of his coronation, George
the Third composed a prayer which for
brevity and good sense has rarely been
equaled. 1t was afterward found in his
desk. 1t reads thus: keep me, Lord,
from silly and %unguarded friends, and
from secret and designing enemies, and
give me those things that are best for me,
through Jesus Christ our Lord"
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HOW To USE LIME.

Swamp lands, and all rich bottoms,
which have been we'll drained, bear repeat
ed and large applications of lime ; because
they usually contain large supplies of mat
tiers upon which lime acts with the best
effect, and on such lands lime will be more
beneficial than manure, for the first year
or two. On all rich, deep, and loamy soils
it may be used proftably, for although
these contain in themselves the elements
of the best soils, they are often very slug
gish and retain compost and stable manure
in a dormant state for a great length of
time, unless they are acted upon by lime.
Such soils after an application of lime, pro-
duce much heavier crops, with a smaller
been used. Clay lands are always much
benefited by large applications of lime !;
and upon such lands small quantities have
but little effect. It greatly improves all
adhesive soils, especially when used fresh
and strong from the kiln, as in shaking it
breaks up the soil and makes it more fria-
BILE, so that it is less liable to bake under
drouth than otherwise. And crops grow
ing on tenacious, heavy lands, that have
been we'll lined, preserve their green,
healthy appearance under either drouth or
wet, while those on similar land that has
not been so treated, become yellow and
sickly. Upon sandy soils, which seldom
contain much vegetable matter, lime has a
mechanical action, the reverse of that in
clay soils. Whereas, on these latter the eff
feet is to d~isintegrate, on the former it is
to combine and render more tenacious. 1t
combines with the fine particles of soil !;
gives a body to the soil, and attracting
moisture from the atmosphere, imparts it
gradually to the crops, so that these are
materially helped through our parching
drouths. 1t is upon sandy lands that farm
ers often find that cow-peas will not thrive.
The plants will grow until about five or
six inches high when they will turn yellow
and die out. This is owing to the absence
of lime, good dressing of (which will rem
edy all evil and produce a fair yield.-A.
p. F: in Home and Farm.
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IT'S THE LADY WASP THAT STINGs.-
The male wasp never stings. But so long
as he and his sister are twins and dressed
exactly alike this bit Of knowledge avail
eth nothing to the careless man who does
not know that it is the lady who is APP
preaching him, until it be that she smiteth
him with her hustle. What humanity de-
mands of science in the case of the wasp
is the invention of some prompter method
of distinguishing between monsieur and
madamWazZle at forty yards.-Science
Gossip.
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How THE LAKE WAS PoIsoNED.-The
story of the poisoning of Dawho Lake,
Georgetown county, by a hail storm, as
recently described by the Herald, has been
corroboratod in every particular by a
prominent citizen of Georgetown, who
has investigated the matter at the request
of Gen. Greedy, chief of the weather SER
vice.
A dense mass of black gum trees sur
round the lake on all sides. 1t is we'll
known that the leaves of these trees are
strongly impregaated with tannic acid.
It has also been ascertained that the bot
tom of the lake contains a slight deposit
of iron. The poisoning of the water, there
fore, is thus explained: The hail storm
filed the lake withbruised leaves and small
branches from the trees, the tannic acid
emanating from which mingled with the
iron, causing the water to turn black as ink
and bitter as q~uinine and poisoning the fish
by the thousands.
One species of the fish inhabiting this
lake survived the singular disaster, and
that was the mud fish, which buried itself
in the mud at the bottom and thus es-
capped the effect of the poisoning. .
The stencil arising from the mass ofdead
and rotten fish is described as fearful. The
thousands of buzzards in taking their de-
parture in the evening for their roostlng
place after a days feast are described as
making a noise similar to that of an ap-
preaching cyclone.
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n9- The old law which protected a SOW
ereign State from being sued by an indi-
vidual has, by recent Act of Congress,
been killed. The new law makes it pos
sible for a suit to be entered against the
United States in the same way as against
a private party, either in the District or
Circuit Court of the United States in the
district of which the party is a citizen.
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PoLITENEss ALL ARoUND.-Little Girl
(who is spending the afternoon with her
aunt)-"Auntie, mamma said that l was
not to ask you for anything to eat"
Aunt-"Yes, Flossie, your m was
quite right. 1t wouldn't be polite, you
know" -,
"Little Girl (contemplatively)-"No, it
wouldn't be polite, and Perhaps thought
that as I was your guest you would offer
me something without asking."-New
York Sun.
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MILLIONS OF RAILROAD TIEs.-Ed. f.
Aver, of Chicago, does the largest business
in railroad ties in the United States or
Canada, or, in fact in the world. His con-
tracts already will require him to load an
average of 16O cars each day for the re-
mainder of this year. Counting each car
as averaging thirty.four feet long, this
would make up a train Ola miles in length,
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a9- Home is the place where we may
talk of what we have done without being
charged with self-adulation. There is the
place where we may express qualification
without being thought silly. There is the
place where we may forget all our annoy,
ances and troubles. Home is a blessed
! ,rbor for storm-tOssed mariners.
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and the ties wouldbuild a railroad from
Niagara Falls to Sa Francisco. They are
cut for the most pst in Illinois, Wiscon-
sin, Michigan, Iniana, Ohio, Missouri,
Arkansas, Arizona Minnesota and Cana
da, and shipped imp every State and Ter
ritory in the Union They are worth here
an average of 3s GETS apiece, and counting
the entire cut for TIE next seven months at
$500, 900, their totaIvalue foots up $780,
600, a very respectable sum. A fair per-
centage of profit onh business of this kind
would enable the chtracter to lose a dol
lar now and again fithout great regret.
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FROM BARBARIsM TO CIVILIZATION
Some twenty-five years ago a photogra-
pher of Chicago, being in Arizona on a
vacation trip, found and rescued from an
Apache camp an abandoned Indian male
infant of full blood. The abandonment
would e to have implied no very prom
Using origin of the child in his W tribe
but the photographer became possessed
with a desire to take the boy home with
him and adopt him. In spite OF warnings
that the child would prove a viper In his
bosom, he carried out his intention, and
reared the boy, to whom the name OF
Charles MOnteZuma was given, as a MEM
Der of his own family. The young Apache
grew up to be in face and physique the
very type of his tribe but he was at the
same time an excellent scholar and perfect
gentleman. He graduated at the Chicago
High school with credit, and was very
popular in his class, being gentle, polite
industrious.
A recent inquiry as to Montezuma's ca
reer since the completion of his high school
education developed the facts that he has
selected surgery for a profession, and Will
graduate from the Chicago Medical college
far above the average of his class; that he
IS liked by his classmates, and has never
manifested any desire to resume the bar
barous habits of his relatives, or shown
any savage traits whatever; that he sup
ports himself, during his studies at the
medical college, by filling prescriptions at
a Chicago drug store, where he is looked
upon as an expert pharmacist, n that
every circumstance indicates that he will
make a successful professional man.-Bos-
ton Transcript.
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Bradfield's.
Regulator.

TlHIs famous remedy most happily meets the
demand ofthe age for woman's peculiar and
multiform Affections. 1t is a remedy for MO,
MANONLY, and for one SPECIAL CLASS OF
her diseases. 1t is a specific for certain diseas-
ed conditions of the womb, and proposes to SO
control the Menstrual Functionas to regulate
all the arrangements and irregularities OF her
Monthly Sickness atso The En- d P bro pmrenart4 vlaim '0r
BRADFIELD'S FEMALE REGULATOR
Is strictly a Vegetable Compound. and is the
studied prescription of a most learned ph!ysl-
clan whose speciality was WOMAN, and whose
fame became enviable and boundless because
of his wonderful success in the treatment and
it will relieve you Of nearly all the complaints
peculiar to your sex.
For sale by druggists. Write for book on
Female Diseases to
BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO.,
Atlanta. Ga.
August II 32 1y
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A A

VNJHY is it that three bottles of B. B. b. are
w sold in Atlanta to one of any other blood
remedy, and twice as much consumed in the
State Of Georgia as any other preparation? No
one need to take our word, but simply ask the
druggists. Ask the people. They are compe-
tent witnesses. Six houses in Atlanta are buy
ing B. B. B. in five and ten gross lots, and some
of them buy as often as every two months.
Why these unprecedented sales here at home
with so little advertising? Modesty forbids us
making a reply. Had B. B. f. been before the
public a quarter or half a century, it would
not be necessary to be bolstered up with crutch-
es Of page advertisements now. Merit will
conquer and down money.
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Bag- The growth of water works in this
country in the last five years is something
phenomenal. Up to the year 1880 the
total number of water works in cities and
towns in the United States was 556 from
that time to the end of 1886 there were 623
new works built and put in operation,
being CT in excess of all built previously,
and they are being built this year faster
thar ever.
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CAR SERVICE.
Grains run by 18th Merida
NORTH BOUND.

On Trains Nos. So and SO, Pullman Buffet Sleepers between
Washington and Augusta, via Danvile.
On Trains Nos. so and 81, Pullman Sleepers between Savan
nah and Hot Springs, N. G, via Columbia and spartanburg.
JAS. L. TAYLOR, d. CALDWELL, SOL HASS,
Gen'l Pass. Agent. Asst Genr Pass. Agent, Traffic Manager.
Columbia, s.. Z.
limo * #
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pr Do all you can to encourage the birds.
They are your best friends. Protect them
and their. nests, and keep q watch on the
family cats, which do birds much damage.
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He WAS A GENTLEMAN.-Some anus
ing stories are told of the wit and wisdom
of London school children. Aclass of boys
in a boarding school was being examined
orally in Scripture. The history of Moses
had for some time been q special study,
and one of the examiners asked: .
"What would you say of the general
character of Moses ?"
she was meek" said n boy.
9Brave," said another.
Learned" added a third boy.
"Please, sir" piped forth a pale faced,
neatly dressed lad, she was gentleman
'How do you make that out?"
The boy promptly replied, in the same
thin, v voice, "Please, sir, when
the daughters of Jethro went to the we'll
to draw water, the shepherds came and
drove them away and Moses helped the
daughters of Jethro, and said to the shep-
herds, Ladies first, please, gentlemen."-
London Christian World.
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$l,OO WORTH $50O.00.

For four years I have been a sufferer from a
terrible form of Rheumatism, which reduced
me so low that all hope of recovery was given
up. Ihave suffered the most excruciating pain
day and night, and often while writhing in ag-
ony have wished I could die. I have tried ev-
erything known for that disease, but nothing
did me any good, and have had some of the
finest physicians Of the State to work on me,
but all to no effect. have spent over $500 with
out finding relief. I am now proud to say that
after using only one bottle of B. B. b. am ell
abled to walk around and attend to business,
and I would not take $500 for the benefit re-
ceived from one single bottle of BE B.. re-
fer to all merchants and business men OF this
town. Yours, most truly, E. o. GAIA.
\Vovor1u Walkar cOIlnty- Texas.
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BEES AS Observation-Disclosures the
farmers insect friends the bees make
themselves useful, and, as some think, in
dispensable as seed-makers, by carrying
pollen on their legs from plant to plant.
Darwin made some experiments in regard
to fertilization of flowers by insect agency,
one of which / will transcribe. He select
ed 100 heads of clover which he excluded
from the visits of insects, but gave them
the other requisites of production-viz.,
sunlight and moisture. He also selected
100 heads and left them free to the visits of
insects, with the following results: The
hundred heads that the insects did not get
to failed to produce q single seed, while
those that were visited by the insects pro-
duced $1,000 seeds, thus showing that in
sects are a great factor in the fertilization
of Chicago Times.
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AMUSING THE BABY.-''And now, Bob
by" said his mother, as she buttoned her
gloves, "be a good little boy while | am
out, and do everything you can to amuse
the baby"
On her return she discovered that Bobby
had emptied the contents of the molasses
jug over the baby's head, and the happy
laughter from the infantile lips told her
more eloquently than mere words could
ever hope to tell how eminently success
full Bobby's efforts in the amusement line
had been.
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FRUITING OF COTTON.

Cotton will soO begin to fruit. Hereto
fore it has been making weed, all the food
it could get and prepare, has gone in that
direction. Now we wish a g0odly portion
of it diverted into fruit making. How is
this to be done? BY making the plant
feel, so to speak, as if it were approaching
it's end. The COW pea does not fruit we'll
till the cool nights ofautumn threaten frost.
The sweet potato develops its tubers most
rapidly at the same time, for similar reas-
Ons. Cotton must be made to realize
speaking fguratively) that rampant
growth is not to continue torever-the
Stimulating effects of frequent workings
must be gradually withdrawn from it.
Later (say first of August its head may be
taken off (topped) to strengthen the i'm
race comes in-the production Of seed be-
comes the important thing to be done.
Fruiting takes the place of growth. We
have spoken as if the plant had intelli-
genceLwhether it has or not, the facts are
the same as if it had. UntoWard intiu-
ences threatening destruction, bring on
f%ruitfulness. Cotton should be worked
now at gradually increasing intervals.
The soil should be stirred just as lightly as
possible-just enough to secure health, not
enough to promote rapid growth. In a
month or six weeks from this, it would be
we'll if growth ceased entirely, and all the
energy of the plant was thrown into ma
turing its fruit. New growth and young
fruit started after the middle of August is
practically lost. The farther away from
the tropics Gts native home) cotton is
grown, the more it becomes an annual
plant, that is with completed growth in
one season. Seed, therefore, from the
northern portions of the cotton belt is gen.
orally best-makes a more prolific cotton.
Raisers of fine cotton seed in upper Geor-
gia have found their best customers in
southern ATTITUDES, as far down even as
Florida.
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ECONOMICAL ToMMY.-There is great
hope for a boy when he develops valuable
ideas of economy at the age of seven.
Such a person is the youthful Tommy,
who managed the other night to get his
face extremely dirty after he had eaten his
suppe and was told by his mother to
wash it before he went to bed.
"But, mamma" he said, don't you
think it'd be kind of wasteful to wash my
face now"
"Wasteful? What in the world do you
mean, Tommy?" -,
"Why, what isn't any use is wasteful,
isn't it? And it wouldn't be any use to
wash my face now, cause %nobody'l see.it
in the night"
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f. HAPPERFIELD.
REMEMBER The DEAD.

T WOULD invite special attention to my
present stock of MONUMENTS
TOMBSTONES, among which are several
beautiful SCOTCH GRANITE AND 1TAL-
IAN MONUMENTS. Also a full supply, OF
TOMBSTONES. Prices as low, to responsible
parties, as anywhere else, either for cash or Oh
time.
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NV stock of STAPLE \ FANCY GRO
CERIES is full. Also, Tobacco. Cigars. Boots
and Shoes, Hardware, &c. All Of which is
offered low for Cash, or on time to responsible
parties.
April 13 . 10 II
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BAREFooTED IN MIDWINTER.-"Oh,
yes, they say he's very rich now. Still,
/ knew the time when he used to walk
around barefooted in midwinter."
SIN his early boyhoOd, may be""
ooh, no. Since he's married."
Impossible, Mrs. Dix. Why, e -
"At nights, when the baby had the
colic.n-PhIadelphi0 Cal.
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DEMONSTRATED Merit.

SPARTA, GA, May Is, 1856.
Blood Balm Co. You will please ship us
per first freight one gross B. b. B.
It gives us pleasure to report a good trade for
this preparation. Indeed it has far eclipsed all
other blood remedies, both in demonstrated
merit and rapid sale with us.
ROZIER IL VARDEMAN.
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All who desire full information about the
cause and cure of Blood Poisons. Scrofula and
Swellings, Ulcers, Sores, Rheu-
matism, Kidney Complaints, Catarrh, ETC., can
secure a copy of our 32-page Illustrated Book of
Wonders, filled with the most wonderful and
startling proofever before known by calling on
MAY & MAY,
Wholesale dealers of B. B. B. Yorkville, 5. Z.
June 8 ~